Main Goals

Conserves two ecotypes by implementing sound conservation measures where they will best improve habitat function and where they are most likely to achieve durable conservation benefit.

Capitalizes on existing collaborative partnerships, implements across public and private properties, supports management with effective monitoring and reporting, and uses adaptive management to improve conservation benefit.

Conservation Strategy Outline

The Conservation Strategy integrates conservation effort across jurisdictions in the context of the mineral estate and foreseeable development. An implementing Memorandum of Understanding and three Conservation Agreements communicate the strategy:

Conservation Agreement (CA) to address future development of the mineral estate within potential mineral development areas.

"No matter our political opinion and our passions on environmental issues, we can choose to respect the first hand knowledge of one another. We can also choose to accept that not one of us has the right answer, or the fail-safe methodology, for addressing the conditions and management needs within a landscape or ecosystem. We can choose to learn together about our environment and we can choose to learn from one another to develop plans to improve it."

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About Us

The Thunder Basin Grasslands Prairie Ecosystem Association is a non-profit organization established to provide private landowner leadership in developing a responsible, common sense, science-based approach to long-term management of their lands.